Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions - Softcover

Erman, Eva

 
9781138266841: Human Rights and Democracy: Discourse Theory and Global Rights Institutions
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ISBN 10: 1138266841 ISBN 13: 9781138266841
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is a book within the tradition of deliberative democracy, although it focuses on global institutions and human rights rather than nation-state or federalist democracy. Eva Erman problematizes the absence of political rights in the global human rights discourse from a deliberative standpoint. Starting out from and at the same time criticizing Habermas' discourse theory of law and democracy, she makes a significant contribution to a discourse theory of human rights and applies it to a global rights institution, the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights. This is an innovative study that offers tools for democratizing existing global political institutions, and is therefore suitable for philosophers, political theorists, scholars of human rights and those interested in democracy.

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About the Author

Eva Erman is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University in Sweden.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138266841
ISBN 13 
9781138266841
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
256

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